[Margaret Pilkington]

Yes, those old folk knew a thing or two.
Little girls seeing a pram outside a house would go and ask if they could take the baby for a walk....I have to admit to not doing that. We seemed to have a baby at our house every year for a long time.

Children played games in the street. and each game had a season...skipping ropes, two balls, Jacks, hopscotch.....and then there were the naughty games like knock and run.

Children could go out early in the morning and stay out almost until bedtime - playing out.
You could always see women providing jam butties for a host of children...and they would sit on the kerb eating them(the jam butties, I mean).

In summer playing with the gas tar bubbles - a few of us got into strife with our mothers for that.

When I think about it, we have a wealth of memories that will never be understood by those children growing up today.
We might not have had the mobile phones, the computers and video games...but we had our imaginations, our friends and time to play. We were not forced to growe up before our time......and that is priceless.